Severn and Somme

by Ivor Gurney

45 chapters1h 3mEnglish1917

About this book

The English poet Ivor Gurney wrote these poems while serving in the First World War. In them he contrasts the wartime desolation of the area around the River Somme in northern France with the natural beauty of the valley of the River Severn in his native Gloucestershire. - Summary by Alan Mapstone

Chapters (44)

1To Certain Comrades

114

2The Fire Kindled

3To the Poet Before Battle

4Maisemore

5Afterwards

6Carol

7Strange Service

107

8Serenity

9The Signaller's Vision

10The Mother

11To England - A Note

12Bach and the Sentry

13Letters

14Strafe

15Acquiescence

16The Strong Thing

17Scots

18To an Unknown Lady

19Song and Pain

20Purple and Black

21West Country

22Firelight

23The Estaminet

133

24Song

25Ballad of the Three Spectres

26Communion

27Time and the Soldier

28Influences

29After-Glow

30Hail and Farewell

31Praise

32Winter Beauty

118

33Song of Pain and Beauty

34Spring. Rouen, May 1917

359

35June-To-Come

36"Hark, Hark, The Lark"

37Song at Morning

106

38Trees

39Requiem

40Sonnets 1917 : 1. For England

412. Pain

423. Servitude

434. Home-Sickness

445. England the Mother

Severn and Somme

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